03470oam 22006494a 450 991077799540332120170815171648.00-8223-8982-710.1515/9780822389828(CKB)1000000000758169(EBL)1170520(OCoLC)658055951(SSID)ssj0000394595(PQKBManifestationID)11257407(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000394595(PQKBWorkID)10388312(PQKB)11372907658055951220950498300813022(MiAaPQ)EBC1170520(OCoLC)1148074908(MdBmJHUP)muse80656(DE-B1597)553992(DE-B1597)9780822389828(OCoLC)841915073(EXLCZ)99100000000075816920060822d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSessue HayakawaSilent Cinema and Transnational Stardom /Daisuke MiyaoDurham :Duke University Press,2007.Baltimore, Md. :Project MUSE, 0000©2007.1 online resource (398 p.)a John Hope Franklin Center Book"A John Hope Franklin Center book."0-8223-3969-2 0-8223-3958-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-364) and index.Includes filmography: p. [333]-336.A star is born: the transnational success of The Cheat and its race and gender politics -- Screen debut: O Mimi San, or the Mikado in picturesque Japan -- Christianity versus Buddhism: the melodramatic imagination in The wrath of the gods -- Doubleness: American images of Japanese spies in The typhoon -- The noble savage and the vanishing race: Japanese actors in "Indian films" -- The making of an Americanized Japanese gentleman: the honorable friend and Hashimura Togo -- More Americanized than the Mexican: the melodrama of self-sacrifice and the genteel tradition in Forbidden paths -- Sympathetic villains and victim-heroes: the soul of Kura San and The call of the east -- Self-sacrifice in the first World War: The secret game -- The cosmopolitan way of life: the Americanization of Sessue Hayakawa in magazines -- Balancing Japaneseness and Americanization: authenticity and patriotism in his birthright and Banzai return of the Americanized Orientals: Robertson-Cole's expansion and standardization of Sessue Hayakawa's star vehicles -- The mask: Sessue Hayakawa's redefinition of silent film acting -- The star falls: postwar nativism and the decline of Sessue Hayakawa's stardom -- -- Americanization and nationalism: the Japanese reception of Sessue Hayakawa.Critical biography of Sessue Hayakawa, a Japanese actor who became a popular silent film star in the U.S., that looks at how Hollywood treated issues of race and nationality in the early twentieth century.e-Duke books scholarly collection.PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & CriticismbisacshElectronic books. PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism.791.4302/8092BMiyao Daisuke1554250MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910777995403321Sessue Hayakawa3815380UNINA